An aging beauty in Winnetka, Illinois, receives an award for significance and influence. (Editor)

Architects can provide buildings to accomodate student need for active learning settings. (Author)

Describes a 1,500-student open plan middle school. (JF)

Describes a recently opened middle school building in Templeton, Wisconsin, introducing clustered classes, movable walls, and teaching teams. (LN)

Five laboratory schematics are shown to illustrate the flexible industrial arts facilities of a new high school building. (MU)

Describes some of the new school building innovations presented at a recent AASA exhibit; the work of the Rexmere Center in New York for the enrichment of rural youngsters and gives arguments pro and con for State financial support of non- public schools in a recent New York Regents endorsement. (KJ)

The general guidelines identified in this article can assist the educational engineer to develop specifications for learner facilities which will promote and not hinder the anticipated educational program." (Author)

A new, simple building method (in which adobe and clay block structures are fired and baked from the inside) is applied to a school in Iran. (Author/JM)

School planners in Phoenix (Arizona) have coped with unexpected student population shifts by interspersing permanent schools with modular ones. Desert Winds Elementary School, in a Phoenix suburb, was constructed entirely of relocatable modular units. (Author/MLF)

Dickinson College (Pennsylvania) has a new sports center featuring a clear span roof system and an "earth sink" that stores excess heat for later use. The relationship between sports and the liberal arts is the basis for courses taught in the center. (Author/MLF)